A small manufacturing firm still relies on a CAD program that only runs on Windows XP. All new employee laptops ship with Windows 11 and have no vendor drivers for Windows XP. Which of the following client-side solutions will let technicians continue using the legacy CAD application on their new laptops without modifying the host OS?
Configure the laptop to dual-boot Windows 11 and Windows Server Core 2022, installing the CAD program on the server OS.
Package the CAD application in a Docker container and launch it from Windows 11.
Create a Windows XP virtual machine using a desktop hypervisor and run the CAD program inside that VM.
Enable Secure Boot and run the CAD application directly in the UEFI firmware environment.
Creating a virtual machine allows the technician to install Windows XP as a guest operating system inside a hypervisor on the Windows 11 host. The VM abstracts the underlying hardware, so incompatible device drivers on the physical laptop are no longer an issue, and the legacy CAD application can run unmodified. Secure Boot, containers, and dual-booting Windows Server Core do not provide an environment that natively supports Windows XP applications.
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